Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
When I met Jay-Z and Beyonce I was in awe, stuttering like crazy. This guy grew up in the projects and he… — Frances Tiafoe Copy Share Image
I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God never gives dominion to any creature which has not received his image. His image is love. Other things belong to God;… — George Matheson Copy Share Image
Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills,… — Josh Tickell Copy Share Image
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen,… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Christianity began with 120 in the Upper Room, within three centuries it had become the predominant religion of the Roman Empire. What… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
If you can reach just 10 percent of the population, you can begin to reach a tipping point; that's where true social… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how impressively John Elliott assimilated new work on early modern England and colonial America, as well as keeping abreast… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
With the advent of Trump Tower Live, the campaign's new nightly broadcast, streamed over Facebook, rumors are once again, swirling of a… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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